we don't say north vietnam and south vietnam. we just say vietnam these days. but if you were there during the war, was north vietnam and south vietnam. ok. so now to many rural favor expanded ties with the u. s. do you think? i think i think they do, they were expanded, dies with the us. and i think that for some of those there during the war for any american vietnam can be quite a pleasant place to visit. now, there may be difficult isn't draining to go to issues. there are with every country . we have a lot of difficulties with trade negotiations with allied countries. not much less for one issue that i should mention here is that the us very much wants to keep the south china sea and over to water. what china claims as our china is chinese and they're, they're territory. vietnam is of course on the south china sea. and the u. s. by this relationship with vietnam. it is showing that it wants very much supports the openness of the south china sea, which would include vietnam's rise to do so as it was in the south china sea, including oil and gas exploration.

a post war, vietnam. so when you were there as a junior political officer, could you have imagined what you find when you came back as ambassador spanned those two experiences for us. when we when we were there, i was and i began my time in vietnam in the seventies up there from 1970 to 73. i think i seven months with a private with a u.s. advisory team, one of the provinces mainly dealing ethnic vietnamese who had fled from long knoll's pogrom against in cambodia and then two years in the embassy we had a small group of seven young guys, all men all mostly in their twenties, who spoke vietnamese. and we were out there dealing with the vietnamese every day. the civil society, my kids, religious groups, veterans groups, a lot of angry student groups and we sometimes felt we were like the only americans who were doing that. there day and what we came up with was a sense, yes, there was a real civil war. there were large parts of the population, particularly the catholics, that i was dealing with. the the th

in a sense vietnam can play the vietnam has some specific u.s. against china.ietnam has some specific problems with china over who's controlling the sea out there, over drilling for oil and natural gas under the water, and also there's some islands that the vietnamese would very much like to recover, including the paracels which were once vietnamese islands but taken over by china just before the end of the vietnam war. so there are a lot of issues. and the u.s. can put on the appearance of supporting vietnam and possibly give them leverage in negotiations with china. i should add, while mr. blinken was in hanoi participated in the groundbreaking for construction of a huge new american embassy in hanoi. i think the embassy is going to cost well over a billion u.s. dollars. and it'll take a few years to build it but it's an immense embassy that they're building there. in other words, it's a huge american presence. dareen: right. symbolically, what does this tell us? donald: right. the fact that america is placing such emphasis on vietnam has a lot to do not just

vietnam. you know, frankie fitzgerald, so many, you know, as great shining light. but i hadn't seen a and not as much about the antiwar movement was norman mailer's armies of the night. but that's norman mailer. and it can't be repeated. but i wanted to try to put those two very different worlds together to explore the how, the culture changed because of of those moments. so i juxtaposed the with with the protested vietnam in wisconsin and saw from that changes that reverberate all way through the decades. you know the chancellor at the university william sewell, a great social who had studied the effects of of saturation bombing on tokyo world war two, who the first teach in it against the war in vietnam was the chancellor. when this protest he froze and didn't know how to control the police and he was haunted by that for the rest of his life. a tragic shakespearean figure. on the other side, you'd have someone like a young soldier named tom coburn, who is a baby son, because he was so and in

i got to vietnam. i remember getting there on a plane from vientiane, and the plane was going along and so on, and suddenly went almost vertically to a land and the we got out and they said, well, you know, they were mortaring the airport just now. and so we had to do that. so then i got through the customs and so forth, and i was met by a. friend and he said, we've got to hurry. and i said, why? he said, because i have a tennis game. and he did. so i thought, you know how, how do i write about that? and that evening we went to not he and i, but you know, the whole press corps gang went to a birthday party given by the sailors for nbc correspondent for his photographer girlfriend, and it was on the roof, the caravelle hotel and. there was roses and champagne and there were firing in the distance all the time. was of it was outgoing, but some of it was incoming. and we heard even. gunfire in the streets just below. and nobody paid any attention at all except me and i thought, well, how do i write about

vietnam. i believe that one of the reasons for the deep division about vietnam is that many americans have lost confidence in what their government has told them about our policy. the american people cannot and should not be asked to support a policy which involves the overriding writing issues of war and peace unless they know the truth about that policy. tonight, i would like to answer of the questions that i know are on the minds of many of you listening to me. how and why did america get involved in vietnam in the first place? how has this administration changed the policy of the previous administration? what has really happened in the negotiations in paris and on the battlefront in vietnam? what choices do we have if we are to end the war? what are the prospects for? peace. and let me begin by describing the situation i found when i was inaugurated on january 20. the war had been going on for four years, 31,000 americans had been killed in action. the training program for the south vietna

vietnam. mark has served in vietnam. marcus was, a musician, still is. and through that experience and can talk to us about that as well. so i'd like to begin by talking imagery. vietnam was the first war that was televised. most of us who lived through it remember seeing on television every day that was different from other wars. it was not movietone news that we were experiencing, but something much more direct and profound. and mark, you're an image maker. you spent your time during this period capturing images. can you talk a little bit about your own work as a photographer? what drew you to this kind of work and how saw images in forming public opinion about the war? well, first of all, let me say i feel to be on these panels with all these people who are just you, such experts. this. i'm just a photographer. i'm not an expert on the vietnam war. i was there from the summer of 69 until the end of 72, and then i returned 75 and covered the fall of cambodia and, then the fall of vietnam. i'

and i believe in spite vietnam. but if i want to make sure i get this right, that you were one of the military who spoke out against the invasion of iraq in 2000. i read about that, indeed. okay. talk a little bit about why you as a career military officer, when once again, your president was saying we're doing this because we think it's in the best interests of the united states. why you who would never have disobeyed an order in the military stood up and said, as what you did forthrightly, that this is a mistake or whatever it was you said. talk about how you came to that view. so in that happened and i'll start off with at the war college, we send our best and brightest to at the age of 41, 42 years old, to to the war college. every service has one. and the army, when they start off with welcome practice, owners of the military are. we're going to talk about two things. one, the rest of government application to foreign policy and vital or national interests and a vital national interest or an existential interes

i got to vietnam. i remember getting there on a plane from vientiane, and the plane was going along and so on, and suddenly went almost vertically to a land and the we got out and they said, well, you know, they were mortaring the airport just now. and so we had to do that. so then i got through the customs and so forth, and i was met by a. friend and he said, we've got to hurry. and i said, why? he said, because i have a tennis game. and he did. so i thought, you know how, how do i write about that? and that evening we went to not he and i, but you know, the whole press corps gang went to a birthday party given by the sailors for nbc correspondent for his photographer girlfriend, and it was on the roof, the caravelle hotel and. there was roses and champagne and there were firing in the distance all the time. was of it was outgoing, but some of it was incoming. and we heard even. gunfire in the streets just below. and nobody paid any attention at all except me and i thought, well, how do i write about

the end of the war that people, soldiers wanted to go back and and see vietnam, not see vietnam, but see where they fought. and the hanoi quite sort of suspicious about this sort of had had a security officials take the americans around because they thought there doing some spying or something. later they realized that this was a source of hard currency and they should be encouraged to come back and on. and so various people got involved in giving these veterans. and one of them was a translator for, frankie and me, when we went back to vietnam and halberstam and others named control. and in in danang and mr. cohn told us this wonderful story. he early in the early days, we would take these groups of veterans and they would say, okay, we just don't want to go to the sun valley. we want to go to hill for 52, which is where we during that battle, this or this month or and so these guys were getting a little bit older these veterans and they were getting little more out of shape and so contra and and the other guys would sometimes sort of cheat a little bit they'd take them to the coast

we want the status quo in north and south vietnam then that air power campaign could show to south vietnam. and i put it here in north vietnam and even our allies look at us resolve when we're in in this cold war environment, this our resolve against communism, then the more practical ideas are, hey, we need to do some kind of system of strategic destruction of north vietnamese ability to make war. and as we got in the text where, there are all the metaphors all the material really coming from for them to make this war. is it vietnamese industry or not? all right. so this is what but this is the idea this and not only a strategic to go after the transportation system base, but also to prevent that stuff from moving around. so that becomes that transportation line. that's the reason ford is even if stuff is coming from the outside to help prevent that from keeping north sustained, make them feel the pain of war. likewise, let's do an interdiction on operational interdiction campaign that prevents that from going from the north down to the south, and primarily through laos. right? so but so

holcomb in the city in vietnam, once saigon, the old capital of south vietnam. at its heart islam, sewing square, where journalists, diplomats, military st. off and spies, rub shoulders in its famous hotels during the vietnam war. the area around loves filed square. you've got the caravel on one side, the continental on the other, the old passage, a den where the a p office was in my office, the nbc office, and the vis news office. all of these agencies were there and then down the other end of the square, the wrecks hotel. this was the nucleus of the life that we led as war correspondence at that time, is the saigon that we knew a very small but very pivotal area of sy god, where we sort of made our home for a number of years. 2 0, the caravel was built shortly after the 1st into china war in 1954. at 10 stories. it was the tallest building in the city. and it became a significant base for reporters who arrived in saigon and the early 19 sixty's to cover the vietnam war. joan gardner, once a general manager of the caravel, remembers those war reporters from his

this is true, because china is vietnam's . true, because china is vietnam's trading pas and one of thehe world, so they want to keep positive relations with china, but because of china's actions in the south china sea it does need help from the united states. , , , ., ., , does need help from the united states. , , ., ., , ., . states. just explain to us how much vietnam is dependent _ states. just explain to us how much vietnam is dependent on _ states. just explain to us how much vietnam is dependent on china - states. just explain to us how much vietnam is dependent on china for. vietnam is dependent on china for things like train. i think it's the key manufacturing area that they rely on imports from china? vietnam's depend on china for a lot of intermediate and capital goods. that is the production and manufacture of its own exports... i think we are having a bit of trouble from the line but we will try one more. can you hear me?- from the line but we will try one more. can you hear me? yes, i can still hear you- — more. can you hear me? yes, i can still hear you. i _ more. can yo

in what areas do russia and vietnam cooperate from the scene conveys nikolai russia and vietnam are uniteddecades of friendship, and the economy of the countries of cooperation in various fields from energy and agriculture to education and science in 2021, the trade turnover between the countries amounted to strong billions of dollars, but now the indicator was affected by western sanctions and difficulties with logistics, nevertheless, moscow and hanui set themselves an ambitious goal to bring the trade turnover up to 10 billion dollars by 25, such a decision was made following the results of the russian vietnamese inter-regulation. given our economies, given our tuned in fraternal partnerships we see a huge potential for doubling our turnover by the twenty-fifth year to 10 billion, which is based on the calculation of vegan projects that our flagship companies are ready to operate. there are no such projects abroad, gazprom novotek rzd , these projects, just today the issues of financial mutual settlements in national currencies of e-security, unhindered logistics of our cargo and our e-

i'm sure i'm so so they moved to they moved to vietnam and will leave vietnam because there are so many other great parts in here. but there's a scene here. i just love your your living in your your small apartment there. but you go to dinner one night at our old johnny apple's house and it turns out apple is living differently. this is the legendary new york times bureau chief in vietnam. he's the one to responsible for the fact that. i'm back here in washington in year 28 of a three year assignment. and and so tell us tell us how johnny was living high on the hog. i guess the most succinct way i could it. you know, carol and i had, we had two little i guess, semi-detached rooms above this tailor shop. we chose it because. it was a five minute walk to both of our bureaus. carol, working for cbs television in one hotel in the middle of town. and i was working for ap diagonally across the street, the the apartment so called apartment. the rooms were just minutes walk. so that was the only reason we chose them. the bedroom had no windows whatsoever. it was just a black box. the other room

this is a major station in vietnam. not too long ago. there were not a day. there are than 50 of them scattered across the combat zone from the delta, the highlands, in the cities and in the and recently on hospitals as well. each station serves men of all services, anyone on duty in the area service arm. he may belong to. they give you a feeling for how this unique and vital morale operation. let's follow through with a typical call from the beginning. a soldier, sergeant mike webster, has heard about a nearby marsh station where a man can actually arrange to talk to his family. back in the states, this is the first chance he's had to come over and check out for sarge. can i help you? yes, i understand that. i call home here. how does one go about that? right. right here at the marsh station, we contact the united states by amateur radio and the radio. amateur in the united states. contact your party by regular telephone line to your home. the charges are correct. and then hook you up with the station here. what can i call me? no, it's better if you ride hom

the us would like to get this title of a strategic partnership with vietnam that vietnam's given to a it looks like vietnam, although they talk about upgrading the relationship, is not yet ready to give that title. it's very tricky for vietnam to do this kind of balancing act, isn't it? particularly, i think in terms of trade, china sort of wins the contest, doesn't it? i think also this opening of this huge us embassy is a big attempt, isn't it, as part of america's sort of wooing process? it's a symbol, it's very important. the us is saying, "we're committed". you have to remember that in this region a lot of countries are uncertain about america's commitment. that policy towards the asia—pacific region has been somewhat erratic in the last 20 years. there wasn't much focus on it during the years of the iraq war, for example, during the bush presidencies. president obama made his big pivot towards asia. but then many asian countries are saying, well, we don'tjust want aircraft carriers, we want a really substantial relationship. and then under president trump, well, he was far more

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maria: welcome back, are new york stocks exchange will honor vietnam war veterans 50 years since vietname was shot down back in 1964. joining me right now is that man u.s. navy vet rarn vietnam war prison of war everett alvarez thank you for being here let me say thank you for your service to our great country. >> thank you a pleasure to be here with you this morning. >> it is our honor, sir you were one of the longest held prisoners of war in u.s. history nominated for congressional gold medal of honor. and again we thank you for all of your work, tell us the story. >> well basically, the this afternoon, stock exchange, is one of many events that is happening in this month, and months to follow. marking the end of our direct development of in vietnam will be a major event in washington, d.c., a saluted to vietnam veterans, will be for prisoners of war that came home, and really it will be a dinner at the nixon armory similar to when president nixon held 50 years ago to the date, and, half of the basically half guys that are still alive have been, going to be showing up today's event is

authorities are cracking down, but forgery of japanese brand items remains rampant in vietnam.ompany reps say the solution to fake products is heavy exposure to the real thing. >> translator: we want to help our customers in vietnam become familiar with the genuine product. we aim to create an environment that ensures they will pick items that are not fake. >> reporter: with more japanese companies eyeing the market, competition in vietnam's skin care business will only become more intense. >>> all right, let's have a look at the markets. >>> and from the "newsline biz" team in tokyo, i'm gene otani. thanks very much for being with us. absolutely. >> on al jazeera. imran: european leaders have pledged to turn the north sea into a renewable power energy and. they want to cut the use of fossil fuels and reliance on russian gas. the plan is radical and costly. will it work and where will the money come from? this is "inside story." ♪ hello and welcome to the program. i'm imran khan. finding new sources of green energy is no

vietnam as a strategic partner.rtner. vietnam has held the us on, it has warmed ties, they get better all the time, slowly, but it is wary of provoking china, with whom it has a large border and a much bigger trading relationship. vietnam also has ties with russia and has not voted against russia in the various un resolutions over ukraine. so to be to have the americans on board. the us has been pushing for this relationship for a very long time. but it will only go very gradually. certainly you're not going to see the kind of military alliance that the us has, for example, with countries like the in this region. countries like the in this reuion. ~ countries like the in this re . ion. ~ . countries like the in this reuion. ~ . .,, , region. we heard as well but the us has — region. we heard as well but the us has condemned - region. we heard as well but the us has condemned the l the us has condemned the jailing of the vietnamese political activist. jailing of the vietnamese politicalactivist. how jailing of the vi

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racing again prior to save the world, only truly failure, mammal annoyed the bustling capital of vietnam. far removed from the natural habitat of a shy, sensitive, wild animal. but behind closed doors, illegal trade and penguins continues here. even with the countries tough wildlife protection laws and the prime minister, calling for their strict enforcement after the colbert 19 outbreak. i'm on my way to the center of hanoi, a popular destination for people looking for traditional chinese medicines. i hear it's not hard to find the animal scale here for a range of health issues from arthritis to lactation, problems and going under cover with our producer who's got a hidden camera. we'll tell the shopkeepers i'm seeking remedies for my sister was just had a baby and is having trouble breastfeeding my sick stores. shopkeepers either tell us they don't sell scales because it's illegal or say they have them but get suspicious. then we find so many of a 1000000 go and what it i am with less out of a form that have one of the same like wait a bit, they love it like that. i love you. i think t

the other twin was raised in vietnam. so, that started my process of trying to found out more about the story. while i was researching the science i learned about transnational adoption and the history of that and it became another research through-line through the book. frank: i admire how the book compassionately characterizes different clashing perspectives of the adoption industry. birth family, adopting families, adoptees themselves. you talk to a pair of sisters with drastically different takes on their circumstances. i think it does the work a lot of journalism seeks to do, put groups in perspective in conversations with each other in ways that do not currently exist in the discourse. what challenges did you face getting access to your subjects and cultivating the necessary level of candor? erika: one of the challenges is of course there are interviews in the book with birth families in vietnam. so there are language challenges there. i worked with an interpreter and traveled and was able to interview the birthmoth

it's possible vietnam might even look to the us for military supplies.from russia in the past may be something on the cards with their discussion with secretary of state blinken's visit. interesting seepolitics _ blinken's visit. interesting geopolitics at _ blinken's visit. interesting geopolitics at play. - blinken's visit. interesting l geopolitics at play. jonathan head. just getting an update on the story which has broken in last 30 minutes, japanese prime minister fumio kishida was evacuated and is safe after a blast at its peak in wakayama according to reports by japanese media. the nhk is japan's main broadcaster and it reported loud explosions were heard at the westernport where the prime minister was visiting local media, the afp newsagency, reported a person has been apprehended and we will quickly bring in that video for you one more time that was often the nhk, and verify video, this appears to be the moment were authorities, officials, apprehended the man, it's something we heard from the nhk, this broadcaster that a young man was apprehend

and glen is one of the world's most traffic wild mammoth vietnam is home to 2 of its 8 species. the chinese and assumed up hangal in both are critically endangered globally. and their numbers are thought to have fallen by 80 percent or more in recent decades. wildlife trade monitoring network traffic estimates that between 201620 nearly 90 tons of the animal scale feast globally were linked to vietnam. but there is still hope for this disappearing mammal. i am traveling south, annoyed national park, where local n g o is working tirelessly to rescue and release penguins. so i'm so tired of it. i knew alex hi, i'm douglas. i get on my leg tie and his team have returned nearly a 1000 penguins to the wild since 2014 and are preparing to release another segment over the next few days. there are currently 20 at the center all rescues from trafficking networks good in vietnam and other southeast asian countries. many of the animals that come here are weak, dehydrated, and have serious injuries like this one angle in 1588 identified by the last few digits of his coat number at the cente

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now you have the now the world bank is urging vietnam to go green. looks like for the west, it's convenient to leave the developing countries. a rob and blame themselves. vietnam's agricultural sector is at an infection point. it is supported both growth and poverty reduction. but there is now an urgent need to transform and adopt sustainable and low carbon practices to maintain growth. let's recall here that an average rate is responsible for producing more carbon dioxide emission than say somebody in a democratic republic of congo produces in an entire year. our analysis shows that in just a few days, the average person in the u. k. produces more climate emissions than people in many low income countries do in an entire year. it would be a cruel irony if the countries that have least contributed to this problem won't be able to have access to energy infrastructure despite the government shifting priorities in vietnam. director of the charity michel plus c's rice farmers have limited options and an uncertain future. it's a shared responsibility, but

, not the only one, vietnam is another that comes up vietnam is another that comes up in _ vietnam isussion and including, and there are a few others in latin— and there are a few others in latin america as well. but the indian — latin america as well. but the indian government has what they call a _ indian government has what they call a production linked incentive plan, they are trained _ incentive plan, they are trained to motivate more manufacturing locally through tax breaks and that sort of thing. _ tax breaks and that sort of thing. so _ tax breaks and that sort of thing, so we have already seen a good — thing, so we have already seen a good part of phones being assembled in india, including apple's — assembled in india, including apple's fault. but it is a bit harder— apple's fault. but it is a bit harder because you need the whole — harder because you need the whole component industry ecosystem to move with it. but not to — ecosystem to move with it. but not to say— ecosystem to move with it. but not to say apple will lead china _ not to say apple will lead china. china will